Bastia: Fifth round

Ivan Cheparinov

After the fifth round, two players are leading on 4½/5, Laurent Fressinet and Ivan Cheparinov. A good result here could see Laurent Fressinet get back his 2700-status. Tomorrow there will be two rounds with the players having in mind the importance of finishing in the top fourteen, which means qualification for the knock-out stage.

The top twenty boards in the fifth round:

Table	Points	White	Rating	Result	Black	Rating	Points
1	[3½]	TREGUBOV Pavel V.	2602	0 - 1	FRESSINET Laurent	2696	[3½]
2	[3½]	SASIKIRAN Krishnan	2689	X - X	DURARBEYLI Vasif	2526	[3½]
3	[3½]	ARNOLD Marc T	2505	X - X	MAMEDOV Rauf	2660	[3½]
4	[3½]	CHEPARINOV Ivan	2650	1 - 0	SHACHAR Ehud	2355	[3½]
5	[3½]	MELKUMYAN Hrant	2619	X - X	JONES Gawain C B	2624	[3½]
6	[3]	SULAVA Nenad	2540	1 - 0	GRIGORYAN Avetik	2614	[3½]
7	[3]	BARON Tal	2505	1 - 0	MASSONI Michael	2304	[3]
8	[3]	BERTHELOT Yannick	2286	1 - 0	BATTAGLINI Gabriel	2452	[3]
9	[3]	DEMUTH Adrien	2440	1 - 0	MAMEDJAROVA Turkan	2277	[3]
10	[3]	DIMITROV Radoslav	2424	0 - 1	PESOTSKYI Vitalii	2268	[3]
11	[3]	BEDOUIN Xavier	2406	1 - 0	PESOTSKYI Olexandr	2003	[3]
12	[3]	IVANOV Stojan Emilov	2221	1 - 0	DEBRAY Christopher	2402	[3]
13	[3]	GIUA Frederic	2193	X - X	GIROYAN Gary	2318	[3]
14	[3]	BEKHOUCHE Erick	1663	0 - 1	SAADA Julien	2313	[3]
15	[3]	COLEMAN Teddy	2312	1 - 0	SUSINI Lisa	1740	[3]
16	[2½]	DAURELLE Herve	2209	0 - 1	FLEAR Glenn C	2471	[2½]
17	[2½]	MULLON Jean-Baptiste	2379	1 - 0	DUPORT Nicolas	2220	[2½]
18	[2½]	BAGHDASARYAN Vahe	2362	1 - 0	LOEWE Lennard	2077	[2½]
19	[2½]	MELLER Piotr	2047	0 - 1	DIMITROV Pavel	2353	[2½]
20	[2½]	JUDKOVSKY Yair	2329	1 - 0	GERONIMI Pierre-Francois	2013	[2½]

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